Relocating .data at 0x0

[Nick Clifton]

Hi David,

> I tracked down the problem to binutils/ld/aoutx.h ~line 1010:
> 
>   if (abdp && abdp->zmagic_mapped_contiguous)
>     { 
>       text_pad = (obj_datasec(abfd)->vma
>           - obj_textsec(abfd)->vma
>           - obj_textsec(abfd)->_raw_size);
>       obj_textsec(abfd)->_raw_size += text_pad;
>     }
>> 
> Since the VMA for .text was 0x30 and .data was at 0x0, text_pad is set
> negative and corrupts the .text output section's _raw_size, causing an
> error (the oh-so-descriptive "bad value") in the bfd_final_link stage.

Would you mind trying out the patch below, to see if it fixes the
problem ?

Cheers
        Nick

2001-06-12  Nick Clifton  <nickc@cambridge.redhat.com>

	* aoutx.h (adjust_z_magic): Do not pad the text section 
	if the data section is going to be placed before it.

Index: bfd/aoutx.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/bfd/aoutx.h,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -p -r1.19 aoutx.h
*** aoutx.h	2001/05/23 17:26:35	1.19
--- aoutx.h	2001/06/12 13:29:08
*************** adjust_z_magic (abfd, execp)
*** 1006,1015 ****
      }
    if (abdp && abdp->zmagic_mapped_contiguous)
      {
!       text_pad = (obj_datasec(abfd)->vma
! 		  - obj_textsec(abfd)->vma
! 		  - obj_textsec(abfd)->_raw_size);
!       obj_textsec(abfd)->_raw_size += text_pad;
      }
    obj_datasec(abfd)->filepos = (obj_textsec(abfd)->filepos
  				+ obj_textsec(abfd)->_raw_size);
--- 1006,1019 ----
      }
    if (abdp && abdp->zmagic_mapped_contiguous)
      {
!       asection * text = obj_textsec (abfd);
!       asection * data = obj_datasec (abfd);
! 
!       text_pad = data->vma - (text->vma + text->_raw_size);
!       /* Only pad the text section if the data
! 	 section is going to be placed after it.  */
!       if (text_pad > 0)
! 	text->_raw_size += text_pad;
      }
    obj_datasec(abfd)->filepos = (obj_textsec(abfd)->filepos
  				+ obj_textsec(abfd)->_raw_size);